First female mayor was also Ottawa's most colourful

Publicly, she was described as a “relentless and devoted war horse,” a “human dynamo,” “explosive” and a “little package of dynamite.” Privately, there were likely many who would have had far less kind things to say.
But regardless of where one stood in regards to Charlotte Whitton, Ottawa’s 46th mayor and the first woman to be mayor of a Canadian city, there was no denying the truth in the words that accompanied her Queen’s Univer